ANXIETY DISORDERS IN CLINICAL PRACTICE

Clinical practice guidelines. Management of anxiety disorders.

Pediatric anxiety disorders: from neuroscience to evidence-based clinical practice.

The objective of this narrative review of the literature is to describe the epidemiology, etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and treatment of pediatric anxiety disorders. We aim to guide clinicians in understanding the biology of anxiety disorders and to provide general guidelines for the proper diagnoses and treatment of these conditions early in life. Anxiety disorders are prevalent, assoc...

Chapter 15. Anxiety Disorders 15.6 Anxiety Disorders: Clinical Features

The last 30 years have seen a dramatic increase in clinical research on a group of mental conditions labeled “anxiety disorders” in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) nomenclature. While the term “anxiety” has been applied to diverse phenomena in the psychoanalytic, learning-based, and neurobiological literature, the term “anxiety” in the clinical psychopathological...

Narcissistic disorders in clinical practice.

In this paper, the concept of narcissism in the psychoanalytic literature is reviewed and three uses of the term are defined, firstly, clinical narcissism, secondly, an innate force or tendency opposed to relationships and thirdly, narcissistic personality disorders. The latter can be further differentiated on the basis of the transference/countertransference into borderline (thin-skinned), alo...

Episodic Memories in Anxiety Disorders: Clinical Implications

The aim of this review is to summarize research on the emerging role of episodic memories in the context of anxiety disorders (AD). The available literature on explicit, autobiographical, and episodic memory function in AD including neuroimaging studies is critically discussed. We describe the methodological diversity of episodic memory research in AD and discuss the need for novel tests to mea...